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George Shaw Wheeler (May 22, 1908 – October 18, 1998) (known also as George S. Wheeler) was an American economist and advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, best known for being the first American to defect over the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia in November 1947. Wheeler's defection inspired his friend Noel Field to do likewise the following year in 1949 and also US Senator Joseph McCarthy cited Wheeler's name when accusing US President Harry S. Truman of "Trumanism", i.e., "the placing of your political party above the interest of the country", specifically when it came to promoting alleged Communist spy Harry Dexter White and others (including Wheeler).

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  • George Shaw Wheeler (May 22, 1908 – October 18, 1998) (known also as George S. Wheeler) was an American economist and advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, best known for being the first American to defect over the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia in November 1947. Wheeler's defection inspired his friend Noel Field to do likewise the following year in 1949 and also US Senator Joseph McCarthy cited Wheeler's name when accusing US President Harry S. Truman of "Trumanism", i.e., "the placing of your political party above the interest of the country", specifically when it came to promoting alleged Communist spy Harry Dexter White and others (including Wheeler). (en)
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  • 1908-05-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Rollingbay, Washington, U.S. (en)
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  • Czech (en)
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  • 1998-10-18 (xsd:date)
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  • Economics (en)
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  • Defected to Czechoslovakia , asked for political asylum (en)
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  • George Shaw Wheeler (en)
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  • Professor (en)
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  • Francis Marion Wheeler, Jeanie Melissa Shaw (en)
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  • Asserting that the immediate reason for the statement was "to protest against the brutal and unlawful treatment by the American occupation authorities of fifty-eight Czechoslovak citizens who were kidnapped in a carefully planned and typically gangster plot and flown over the border of their country," he [Wheeler] declared that "I want to have nothing in common with the Gestapo methods of the executors of American policy ... I place myself proudly in the camp of peace and progress." (en)
  • thumb|right|Joseph McCarthy invoked Wheeler's defection in his attacks on former US President Harry Truman (here, McCarthy chats with Roy Cohn during Army-McCarthy hearings) Text of Senator McCarthy's Speech Accusing Truman of aiding Suspected Red Agents (en)
  • American Couple Asks Czech Haven (en)
  • In connection with Communist infiltration of our government let me give you, if I may, very briefly, another case in which Truman intervened in behalf of a communist agent. (en)
  • and, of course, as you know, Wheeler is now behind the Iron Curtain, having admitted that he was an espionage agent (en)
  • Now, what does Truman have to do with this? As early as 1944 the Civil Service Commission Loyalty Board had found Wheeler disloyal because of Communist and espionage activities. (en)
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  • Eleanor Mitchell (en)
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  • NRLB, US DOL, WPB, FEA, Czechoslovakia Academy of Science, Charles University, Washington State University, Franconia College (en)
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  • George Shaw Wheeler (May 22, 1908 – October 18, 1998) (known also as George S. Wheeler) was an American economist and advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, best known for being the first American to defect over the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia in November 1947. Wheeler's defection inspired his friend Noel Field to do likewise the following year in 1949 and also US Senator Joseph McCarthy cited Wheeler's name when accusing US President Harry S. Truman of "Trumanism", i.e., "the placing of your political party above the interest of the country", specifically when it came to promoting alleged Communist spy Harry Dexter White and others (including Wheeler). (en)
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